Bone Broth for Flu and Cold Season! By: Brooks Laber D.C. If you aren’t already making bone broth regularly, I’d encourage you to start today! It is an incredibly healthy and very inexpensive addition to any diet and the homemade versions beat store bought broth in both taste and nutrition (by a lot).  It is the perfect food to have in the freezer with the cold and flu season right around the corner.  Below are 10 reasons so start making homemade bone broth today! 1. It heals a leaky gut. -The gelatin in bone broth protects and heals the mucosal lining of the digestive tract and helps aid in the…

By Brooks Laber D.C. Has your mom ever told you the breakfast is the most important meal of the day?  Well turns out that she was right all along.  More and more researchers are finding that breakfast is the key to a healthy life, and yet many people sacrifice it in their rush to get out the door. As its name implies, breakfast is breaking the fast between dinner and lunch.  When you decide to skip breakfast, your body goes into a prolonged fasting state, which decreases energy, slow down metabolism, and when you do finally eat lunch your body tries to store it as fat because it thinks it…

Tips to avoid a food emergency!! It may seem as though we live in a land of plenty. Everywhere you look there are vending machines, restaurants and stores offering an endless assortment of quick and cheap snacks and meals. And yet, the reality is everyday most Americans live in a constant state of emergency. Either they skip breakfast or they put themselves at the mercy of the local coffee chain feeding them high-sugar coffees and donuts or muffins or scones.  And then, at work, there are bowls of candy and vending machines full of soda and on the way home, there are fast food restaurants and convenience stores luring you…

By: Brooks Laber D.C. Egg Purchasing Guide Ah, eggs. What’s not to love, they are hands down the perfect breakfast food.  The trouble starts when we try and figure out which eggs are healthy for us, and which eggs to avoid.  The biggest problem is the myriad of terms used to describe eggs. Cage free. Organic. All natural. Free range. You see these terms on egg cartons all the time, some even using all four at once! But what do they mean? Does “free range” mean access to a chicken’s natural enviroment? Let’s examine each term for what it’s worth. Free Range As applied to chicken eggs, this term is…

By Brooks Laber D.C. Everyone knows multiple people that suffer everyday with this silent killer.  It is estimated that 8.3% of Americans have diabetes now, and that by 2050 that number is expected to sky-rocket to 33%.  Diabetes leads to a whole laundry list of conditions like; heart disease, stroke, cancer, Alzheimers, blindess, ect.  Now are you ready for the good news, 90% of all diabetes is not only preventable, but also reversable.  By changing the way we eat, move, and approach food we can completely change the trend.  Take back your health, and the health of your family!  Look into things like mediterranean diet, paleo lifestyle, and low glycemic…